Название: The Salvador option: the United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992
Автор: Russell Crandall
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134595
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 680
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody years. Unwilling to tolerate an advance of Soviet and Cuban-backed communism in its geopolitical backyard, the US provided over six billion dollars in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government.
El Salvador was a deeply controversial issue in American society and divided Congress and the public into left and right. Relying on thousands of archival documents as well as interviews with participants on both sides of the war, The Salvador Option offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the available evidence. If success is defined narrowly, there is little question that the Salvador Option achieved its Cold War strategic objectives of checking communism.